Sneak peak of the Survivor dress!
Almost half of the fabric has been printed, can you believe it?? I just want to thank absolutely everyone who has participated in this project! It means the world to me.
So much love.
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2013-04-26
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2013-01-05
On Seeing Louie C.K. Last Night
After seeing Louie C.K. perform last night in Boston, I had what I don’t want to call a “revelation” because that sounds pretentious to me but that’s what it was. Actually, I’ll be honest, I had a pretentious revelation about Louie C.K’s comedy last night and I’d like to share it with anyone willing to read it.
Part of what makes Louie C.K. so great is his ability to transcend and transgress the issues that most comics face. To illustrate what I mean, I’m going to draw a parallel to poetry that I promise will make sense eventually.
The problem facing American poetry today—a problem that virtually no one cares about (I’m not even sure to what degree that I care)—is that everyone writes poetry but virtually no one reads poetry (my friend and hero Chris Lindstrom excepted). There’s a sub-problem here too: for a contemporary poet to become widely read, he or she needs to reach something like star status in the writing community. Amiri Baraka and Robert Pinsky are almost too famous to include here, but critically lauded poets like Mark Doty, Derek Walcott, and Tracy K. Smith are all well known but are still not, I would argue, widely read outside of academic circles.
There is a similar problem facing Comedy and Comedians. I’m not sure who to credit with this observation (because it isn’t mine), but ‘being funny is no longer the sole property of New York Jews.’ In other words, in much the same way that writing good poetry is eminently possible without an MFA, not only can one can be a very funny person without being a Comedian, but one can be as funny as a Comedian and just be some lady who works an office job, or some guy who goes antiquing on the weekends.
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2012-10-03
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2012-07-15
Challenging American Attitudes: HBO, the (Hopefully) Decaying Network System and a Brief History of Abortion Anxiety on Television
Prologue: The Intro’s Intro
As a general rule of creative composition, I believe that a more focused essay, album, novel or film is superior to one more mazy and unwieldy in almost every case. That being said, what lay before you, dear reader, is a blog post of quite some length. To put it simply, this post really got away from me. I could have split this up into a few shorter pieces but the overall point I want to impart with anyone reading this is one of the systems relationship that brings together all the topics in the essay. TV ratings, Cable company intractability, the relative lack of challenging television programming available on network channels, American attitudes toward science, gay rights and abortion are, in my view, all linked.
Since this essay does touch on several divergent, yet related topics, I have tried to make it easier to navigate. By all means, do read the whole post top to bottom, as every section is a logical outgrowth of the previous one, but if you find yourself reading a section you care little about or I’ve started to bore the tits off of you (a phenomenon that is not gender specific), please scroll back up and click one of these links to take you to a part of the easy that details something you may find more suited to your individual interests.
So enough of this apology-warning for the length, on to the Table of Contents!
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MODEL OF THE MOON, FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM, CHICAGO C.1894
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2012-06-01
Why Most Criticism of Girls Misses The Point Entirely
I am bewildered by the race based criticism of HBO’s Girls. Critics seem to have located a kind of brazen venom in the lack of minority representation on the show. As Hanlon’s razor goes, never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Lena Dunham has admitted that the whiteness of the show’s four leads was an honest mistake.
The apology, of course, did nothing to stem the massive amount of anti-superlatives from being hurled at her show. Girls is being treated to an absolute ass paddling from bloggers everywhere for “Whitegate,” despite the shameful fact that most shows fail miserably at incorporating meaningful storylines involving minority characters on a regular basis.
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2012-04-12
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2012-03-04
Two out of three ain’t bad, via Start living for something …
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